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mysql-dfsg-5.0 package

mysql-server-4.1 will also install mysql-server-5.0, missing mysql-client-4.1

Bug #95024 reported by Thomas Haberland
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Kubuntu herd-5:

mysql-client-4.1 is missing. (all repositories activated, using Adept)

Selection of mysql-server-4.1 does also mark mysql-server-5.0 for installation. It is unimpossible to install only mysql-server-4.1.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I'm not sure the mysql-server-4.1 is a real package. I found this information by executing 'apt-cache show mysql-server-4.1':

Package: mysql-server-4.1
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 80
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Christian Hammers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Version: 5.0.32-2
Depends: mysql-server-5.0
Filename: pool/main/m/mysql-dfsg-5.0/mysql-server-4.1_5.0.32-2_amd64.deb
Size: 45482
MD5sum: 1eab63edc97123b481157e272404c850
SHA1: 488c369539338144ced304a86bd0aa38a393d4bf
SHA256: acaa9ff89f74ef27a8aa86ea517b246c40e650fc3c23178b3d7cc391c88a1c2a
Description: mysql database server (transitional package)
 MySQL is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
 server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
 language in the world. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and
 ease of use.
 .
 This is an empty transitional package and can safely be removed.
Bugs: mailto:<email address hidden>
Origin: Ubuntu

I'll assign your bug to mysql though.

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Thomas Haberland (th-haberland) wrote :

In the meantime the package list was updated. mysql-client-4.1 does now exist. And both, server and client-4.1, are marked as transitional package.

Anyway, I'm not really happy about this. MySQL 5.x might work for my applications, I need to test this environment.

But some of my PHP applications requires PHP4 and won't run with PHP5. Unfortunately not. That is the problem when development of an important PHP class is stopped and you can't change to another class for several reasons.
And so I do need PHP4 + MySQL 4.x on my desktop PC at home which is used as development machine for my PHP applications. The production server is running Ubuntu 6.06 Server.

Removing older applications which are still in production use really is a problem.

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Alan Tam (at) wrote :

Debian and Ubuntu has decided to drop mysql 4.1 probably since upstream has stopped supporting it.

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote :

As mentioned above, mysql 4.1 is no longer supported by upstream.

Changed in mysql-dfsg-5.0:
status: New → Won't Fix
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